Lou Anders is an American editor, author, and journalist, primarily of SF and fantasy novels, articles, and short stories.

Anders' break came in 1994, when he become involved with the UK's Titan Publishing when they were about to launch the first Star Trek magazine, Star Trek Monthly. Between 1994 and 1999, Anders wrote around 500 articles, which have appeared in multiple magazines on a variety of subjects, and Babylon 5 in particular.